Meitoku
E1012734
Meitoku was a Japanese era name (nengō) used during the late 14th century in the Muromachi period under the rule of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meitoku canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12746573 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meitoku Context triple: [Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, eraName, Meitoku]
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A.
Shoki
"Shoki" is a popular Nigerian street-hop song by Lil Kesh that helped propel him to mainstream fame and popularized a viral dance of the same name.
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B.
Munefusa
Munefusa is the birth name of Matsuo Bashō, the renowned 17th-century Japanese haiku poet and travel writer.
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C.
Ofunato
Ofunato is a coastal city in northeastern Japan known for its fishing industry and the severe damage it suffered during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
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D.
Kankuamo
The Kankuamo are an Indigenous people of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, known for their traditional spiritual practices, agriculture, and close cultural ties to ancient sites such as Ciudad Perdida.
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E.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meitoku Target entity description: Meitoku was a Japanese era name (nengō) used during the late 14th century in the Muromachi period under the rule of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
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A.
Shoki
"Shoki" is a popular Nigerian street-hop song by Lil Kesh that helped propel him to mainstream fame and popularized a viral dance of the same name.
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B.
Munefusa
Munefusa is the birth name of Matsuo Bashō, the renowned 17th-century Japanese haiku poet and travel writer.
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C.
Ofunato
Ofunato is a coastal city in northeastern Japan known for its fishing industry and the severe damage it suffered during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
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D.
Kankuamo
The Kankuamo are an Indigenous people of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, known for their traditional spiritual practices, agriculture, and close cultural ties to ancient sites such as Ciudad Perdida.
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E.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese era name
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nengō ⓘ |
| associatedShogunate | Ashikaga shogunate GENERATED ⓘ |
| calendarType | Japanese lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| capitalCity | Kyoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| endEraMonth | July 1394 ⓘ |
| endYear | 1394 ⓘ |
| eraNameReading | Meitoku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraNameWrittenInKanji | 明徳 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraSequenceInMuromachi | follows Kōō and precedes Ōei ⓘ |
| eraSystem | Japanese nengō system ⓘ |
| follows | Kōō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | shogunate rule with emperor as figurehead ⓘ |
| historicalEraCategory | 14th-century Japanese era ⓘ |
| namedFor | auspicious phrase from classical Chinese literature ⓘ |
| politicalContext | Nanboku-chō period reconciliation process ⓘ |
| precedes | Ōei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Honshū NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startEraMonth | March 1390 ⓘ |
| startYear | 1390 ⓘ |
| usedByCourt | Northern Court (Kyoto) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedUnderShogun | Ashikaga Yoshimitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Meitoku Description of subject: Meitoku was a Japanese era name (nengō) used during the late 14th century in the Muromachi period under the rule of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.